[Jerusalem Post Front Page] US President Barack Obama is working on a dramatic change in strategy with regard to the Iranian nuclear program, according to officials quoted by the New York Times on Tuesday.
The shift in policy, according to the report, centers on the US dropping its insistence that the Islamic republic immediately cease all activity in its nuclear program during the initial phases of talks. The US would instead encourage Teheran to allow inspectors to visit its nuclear facilities.
The aides quoted in the New York Times report said that Obama was still deciding exact details of the plan.
"We have all agreed that is simply not going to work - experience tells us the Iranians are not going to buy it," a senior European official involved in the talks with the US was quoted as saying of the West's recent attempts to bring about a stop to the Iranian nuclear program. "So we are going to start with some interim steps, to build a little trust."
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oh... shift. Well that's too bad. I accidently misread that the first time through.
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Just give the ayatollahs the GPS coordinates of Rome, Paris, Berlin and London and say The One's work here is done.
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"We have all agreed that is simply not going to work - experience tells us the Iranians are not going to buy it," a senior European official involved in the talks with the US was quoted as saying of the West's recent attempts to bring about a stop to the Iranian nuclear program. "So we are going to start with some interim steps, to build a little trust."
WTF?
Maybe it's just me. But essentially the idea is that a recalcitrant, defiant, mendacious regime is going to uh, build trust with us?
So allowing some inspectors will build confidence that the regime's nuke weapons program is not still proceeding?
So a concession in the opening round of a test of wills with a determined treacherous adversary with clear concrete objectives is supposed to .... lead where exactly?
This situation - like a few others - is exceedingly difficult, and there are no easy answers. Still - is this proposed shift as predictable, and farcical, as it sounds here?
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They aren't going to buy this step either. And why should they? Intransigence has proven to work for them. Eventually the West will say, "OK you can have a nuke, but only 1!" And the turbans will reply "But Mom, Ivan has thousands!"
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The US would instead encourage Teheran to allow inspectors to visit its nuclear facilities.
Encourage? And exactly how is this going to be done? Send ACORN? Community organizing? Conflict resolution techniques? I thought Iran recently kicked out nuke inspectors.
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Still - is this proposed shift as predictable, and farcical, as it sounds here?
The next question is does anybody anybody see anything other then a containment policy as the ultimate resolution to the O-Team plan. The Dennis Ross plan calls for direct talks without preconditions. The theory is that this will signal an end to Bushs cowboy diplomacy. And when the Mullahs still refuse to abandon their lust for nuclear weapons the Europeans will somehow grow a spine. Perhaps the real question is will the Israelis sit with an empty dance card during the 18 month Persian ballet.
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I recall Jimmy Carter was President when the Iranians seized our embassy. Carter was a weak President. Negotiations were not effective. And exactly why will they will be now???
[Iran Press TV Latest] Archaeologists have found evidence suggesting that ancient Jews used human skulls in ceremonies, despite their religious beliefs.
Although there is a strict Halakhic prohibition on touching human remains, recently published findings suggest that ancient Jews might have ignored the rules.
Southampton University researchers said that human skulls were found in present-day Iraq (formerly Babylonia) that are believed to have been used during the Talmudic era.
According to researcher Dan Levene, some of the skulls bear Aramaic inscriptions and at least one of them seems to belong to a woman. "When I presented these findings in Israel, people told me, 'It is not possible that this is Jewish,'" said Levene. "But it is certainly Jewish."
Levene says many desperate people used talisman in the past and skulls were also used to ward off ghosts or demons, Haaretz reported. "The fact remains that belief in demons was widespread at this time among Jews as well as other peoples," writes Levene in a report published in Biblical Archaeological Review. "Incantation bowls are known not only from Jewish communities but from other communities as well."
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Well, at least we have the noble Iranians to put this on the front page of their non-Jewish-controlled press organ. How else would we learn about the tainted and profane Jooooos?
If we don't watch out, the Jews might try to one-up the Sedlec Ossuary... with the skeletons of Palestinian children, no doubt.
From the comments: "Amazing! My orthodox friends complain I don`t keep Kosher - at least I gave up my Babylonian skull. "- HA!!
They used them to drink the fermented blood of Mesopotamian children.
Now that we've gotten the obligatory blood libel out of the way, it seems as if this is a real article. It's about Talmudic-era witchcraft ritual objects. If any of you have ever read the Old Testament, this is the crap that the Prophets were always thundering on about, the endless cycle of backsliding into idol-worship and witchcraft followed by repentance & remorseful piety.
In particular, the ritual objects in question were probably used to traffic with, enlist, or repel 'liliths', demons of childbed fevers and other calamities associated with pregnancy.
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I use a human skull every day. I suspect most, if not all, Rantburgers do also. It's good for holding brains.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran has discovered a new offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf with reserves of 1 billion barrels of heavy crude, says a top oil official.
The head of the Iranian Offshore Oil Co (IOOC) Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh said on Tuesday that the oil field was discovered by India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) in the Farsi block in the Persian Gulf, IRIB reported. He added that the amount of recoverable oil from the field, named Binaloud, would be announced later.
The National Iranian Oil Company announced last week that Iran has discovered seven new oil fields with 'considerable' reserves.
Iran, OPEC's second biggest oil producer, controls about 5 percent of global oil supply.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran plans to send a bigger satellite into space on a rocket with a range of up to 1,500 km (930 miles), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, in comments that may spark further Western concern.
" A rocket with a range of 700-1,500 km is scheduled to take a bigger satellite (than Omid) into space "
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Iran launched a domestically made satellite, called Omid, into orbit for the first time in February; a step that worried Western powers which fear the republic is seeking to build a nuclear bomb and missile delivery systems.
Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil producer, says its nuclear program is to generate electricity, and that the Feb. 3 launch of the Omid satellite was for peaceful telecommunications and research purposes.
The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch warheads, although Iran says it has no plans to do so.
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Since when are satellite launchers stated to have a "range" on earth?
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Article read, NORTH KOREA plans to send rocket into somehwere again???
[Al Arabiya Latest] The United States set out to donate 12 Raven unmanned aircrafts to the Lebanese army as part of its military assistance program, the U.S. embassy announced Tuesday. The aircrafts would be provided "in the coming months," an embassy statement said.
Lebanese army commander General Jean Kahwaji and Defence Minister Elias Murr agreed to the donation while visiting the United States earlier this year.
The U.S. Defense Department will also train Lebanese army pilots on the Raven as "part of the comprehensive, robust U.S. military assistance program to Lebanon," the statement said.
The Raven has electronic sensors providing immediate intelligence information and can perform remote reconnaissance and surveillance.
U.S. military assistance to Lebanon totaled more than 410 million dollars since 2006 and includes aircrafts, tanks, artillery and training.
The news comes right before Lebanon's parliamentary elections for the 128-seat legislature set to be held on June 7. Balloting is expected to be fiercely contested between Western-backed parties and a coalition led by the Hezbollah group.
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Will end up into the hands of Hiz-b-Allah
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And then will be able to critisize Israel when IAF have to knock them down.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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